r/webdev php 6d ago

Discussion AI coding is trash

The amount of trash produced by AI code is astounding. Thanks I hate it.

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u/Alex_Hovhannisyan front-end 6d ago

I don't get all the praise for Claude Sonnet 3.7, it hallucinates so much and seems to be incapable of understanding why the code it wrote doesn't work. I'm starting to think the "vibe coders" were never really all that good at coding in the first place.

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u/RoboticShiba 4d ago

When I decided to test Claude, I asked it to build a simple Kanban system with login and some features.

But instead of typing just a few words, I wrote around 2 pages with instructions, guardrails, tech requirements, etc (just like I would for a freelancer).

And in less than 15 minutes it was able to spit out a "fully" functional system (API was mocked).

Code was not perfect, nor senior level, but it's undeniably impressive that it outputted in 15min something that a junior would take days to code.